R2D2 said:

Moth3r said:

Just use your ears; if you listen to the first few bars of the Star Wars theme music from each release it will be obvious if they are at different pitches.

The 24fps version plays the music/effects audio track at original speed, while the 25fps version plays the music/effects audio track with 104% speed.

Both of them get the dialogs mixed in at the specified timestamps, but the dialog track is always played at original speed!

Compare the german audio of any movie dvd with its bluray edition. Music/effects play faster but the voices are at the same frequencies!

This would only make sense if a new dubbed audio track is created specificly for a new PAL-based home video release (such as the 1995 THX release).

The normal case was to create a german dubbed audio track for a cinematic release that plays at 24fps. A few month/years later this track is used for a PAL video/DVD release and is usually just sped up to 25fps.

At least that is the way it used to be.

Nowadays, creating a pitch corrected audio track for a bluray or DVD release would be very easy, so this might actually be the case.

There also seems to be a lot of disagreement about the number of pitch corrected PAL DVDs. I found an older thread were people discuss this:

http://archive2.avsforum.com/avs-vb/archive/index.php/t-525742.html